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Operation Provide Relief was a United States spearheaded humanitarian relief airlift that ran from August to December 1992 in response to the famine in Somalia.This effort was assisted by the United Nations Operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM I) [1] mission, in light of a severe food crisis initiated and exacerbated by ongoing factional fighting.
In 1991, the United States initiated Operation Provide Relief (UNOSOM I) which was part of a UN endorsed effort called The Unified Task Force (UNITAF), to provide humanitarian relief. In August 1992, President George H. Bush sent, 25,000 US troops (mostly US Marines from I MEF ) to the Republic of Somalia and the mission was renamed Operation ...
United Nations Operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM I) was the first part of a United Nations (UN) sponsored effort to provide, facilitate, and secure humanitarian relief in Somalia, as well as to monitor the first UN-brokered ceasefire of the Somali Civil War conflict in the early 1990s.
The Unified Task Force (UNITAF) was a United States-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force which operated in Somalia from 5 December 1992 until 4 May 1993. A United States initiative (code-named Operation Restore Hope), UNITAF was charged with carrying out United Nations Security Council Resolution 794 to create a protected environment for conducting humanitarian operations in the ...
UNOSOM (United Nations Operation in Somalia) may refer to: UNOSOM I, an operation established in April 1992 and running until its duties were assumed by the UNITAF mission in December 1992; UNOSOM II, an operation from March 1993 until March 1995; UNITAF, an operation from December 1992 until May 1993; Operation Provide Relief (Part of UNITAF)
Pages in category "United Nations operations in Somalia" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Barbara Garland, left, with NC Baptists on Mission Disaster Relief hands out food to other volunteers at Biltmore Church Arden Campus in Arden, N.C. on Monday, September 30, 2024.
The United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) was the second phase of the United Nations intervention in Somalia and took place from March 1993 until March 1995, following the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991.